NoitaminA Film "Empire of the Corpse" Announces Visitor Privileges!　Yoshimasa Hosoya and Kana Hanazawa will appear on stage for the live broadcast of the opening day greetings.

Noitamina's "Project Itoh," an anime adaptation of the late Keisuke Ito's novel "Empire of the Corpse" to be released in theaters on October 2, has unveiled the visitor benefits and guide manga for the film.

This project, the second Noitamina movie following the blockbuster hit "PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass the Movie," is based on the original novels "Slaughterhouse Organ" and "Harmony" by Keisuke Ito, who died prematurely in 2009 at the age of 34, and his 30-page preface to the novel, which was written by his close friend and Akutagawa Prize-winning author, Akutagawa Shoichiro. The three novels, "Slaughterhouse" and "Harmony," were written by Akutagawa Prize-winning author Tou Enjou, who is known as a close friend of Keigeku Ito.

The "Empire of the Corpse" will be released in theaters on October 2, and the visitor's bonus and guide manga for the film have been unveiled. The special gift for visitors will be a "bookmark with the voice reading from the original novel" (two kinds in total), in which the voices of Yoshimasa Hosoya, who plays Watson, and Kana Hanazawa, who plays Hadary, reading a passage from the original novel can be downloaded. Distribution is random. And the guide manga is titled "Shikansha no Teikoku Omake Web Manga," which is serialized by the director Ryotaro Makihara himself on the work's official website (http://www.project-itoh.com). It features cute pictures and easy-to-understand stories. There will be a total of nine episodes.

In addition, a live stage greeting on the opening day will be broadcast live on Nico Nico Live Broadcast (http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv236491914) from 8:45 p.m. on October 2. Scheduled to appear on stage are Yoshimasa Hosoya (John H. Watson), Ayumi Murase (Friday), Kana Hanazawa (Hadaly Lillis), Daisuke Kusunoki (Frederick Barnaby), and Taiki Yamashita (Nikolai Krasotkin).